33o Chap:4. .4Coaanerttarie vpo,o ielous ouer you, but it is amine : nay, ieloufie for you is good. The firtt part of the comparifon is in the 1;. verte , the fi:cond in the 18. Thevie. When Paul faith , that the falfe Apoflles were le. Ions ouer theGalatians amifTe , he fell out the billion of men y in the world , which is to doe things which are good in their kind, but todoe them for wrongends. It is an excellent office topreach theword , but fome doe it of enuie and contention, phil. r . r 5. others make marchandifeof the word. It is an ex- cellent thing to imbrace the Gofpel : and yet manymen doe it to amiffe,for feare, or forhonour , or for profit, or forother fini. (ter reppe , and not for the Gofpels fake. This temporali hie isan excellent thing , yet few there are that know the ende of this life. For men commonly fpend not their time to fecke the kin;dome ofheauen,and to ferle God in feruing ofmen, but 1;[ withall their might, theyaime at honours, profits, pleafures : and thus they liuc amiflc not for thehonour ofGod, but for themfclues. This muff teach vs not onely to doe good , but to doe it well, and to propound good ends toour (clues : and to feeke to bevpright in the flatutes of God. Pfal. 119. 80. To 20 this ende. three things muff be done. Fírll, we mutt let before vs thewill and commandement ofGod, and this mull mooue vs todoe thegood we doe. Sccondly,the outward aCtion mutt be conformable to the inward motions ofthe inward man:and they mull bothgoe together. Thirdly,we mull direCly intend 25 to obay God in the things we doc,and to approouc our hearts and doings to him. In that the falle Apoflles are (aide tobe ielotw, or zealoKJ,vve fee how nature can counterfeit the grace of God : and that which the child of God doth by grace, that thenatural! man 30 candoe by nature. Thus PharaoPained repentance, Exod. 9. 27. and Ahab, that fold !arm /lfe to marks wicksanet, 1.king.21. 27. and Iudas in themidtt ofhis defpaire is raid to repent. Matt. i 2 7.i. Daily experience (heaves thelike in fuchperfons,who in their cxtremitie,with teares vfe tobewailc their hues pall , and 35 with many vowel, and protc!lations, promìfe amendment : andyet afterward when theyare on foote againe, they returns to their oldbias. In a word,there is nothingthat the godly man loth by the fpirit ofGod fpiritually,but an hypocritemay doe the like carnally. Naturecan play the art of the ape in imrta- tin
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